L’edilizia residenziale minore nella Toscana centro-orientale

The contribution focuses on medieval residential buildings in Tuscany and particularly on the central-eastern area of the region. The main centres analysed in the study are Florence, Siena and Arezzo between the 13th and 14th centuries, compared with the 12th-14th century rural contexts of Poggio Bonizio and the Amiata area. The following will be taken into consideration: the relationship between building and town planning, the chronology and distribution of building types and the impact of the reference medieval regulations on the actual structuring of urban space, in the light of the material evidence from the 12th-14th centuries. Particular attention will be paid to the ‘minimal cells’ of medieval urbanisation and to the evaluation of how and to what extent the medieval building heritage reflects (or does not reflect) the social articulation of the communities settled in the centres under investigation. To this end, in addition to the preserved upstanding buildings, evidence of residential buildings from excavation surveys will be considered. Finally, the transfer of models and workers from the city to the rural areas will be evaluated, as well as the possible interactions between the different technical environments of the builders.